Overview

• Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old Chinese national, was found hanging in the shower room of the Moshannon Valley Processing Center on August 5 and pronounced dead by the Clearfield County coroner.
• Ge had been in ICE custody for five days awaiting a hearing before the Executive Office for Immigration Review when staff discovered him unresponsive.
• ICE and local authorities opened an official inquiry into the cause of death, with a formal report on in-custody fatalities due within 90 days.
• The Shut Down Detention Coalition scheduled a news conference for August 7 to call for the termination of GEO Group’s federal contract at Moshannon Valley.
• The privately operated 1,876-bed facility is the largest of four ICE detention centers in Pennsylvania and has faced past reports of limited medical care and staff abuse.